Parameters favoring the production of news content beyond the state's limits

Abstract

Cross-border journalism is carried out by professionals trained and employed in specific nation-states. It is also dependent on mass media with a business model determined within nation-states. These media are consequently eager to attract the interest of news consumers imagined as embedded within these states. As a result, the circulation of news content about issues and events involving the international scale is determined by journalistic routines, which are still path-dependent on state-bordered and multi-faceted containment. The objective of this chapter is to investigate the spatial determinants of cross-border news production from the perspective of three interrelated journalistic practices in the current era of globalization: news gatekeeping, interactionism, and media populism.